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Germany: Postdoc and PhD positions in natural language generation and planning
Written by Administrator
Thursday, 14 August 2008
We invite applications for two research positions (for up to 5 years) in natural language generation and planning -- one post-doc and one PhD student. The selected candidates will work on the generation of natural-language instructions in a virtual 3D environment. They will build upon ideas from AI planning to model situated instruction-giving in a linguistically and formally clean way, implement an instruction-giving system using efficient planning algorithms, and then enter this system into the GIVE Challenge ("Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments"; www.give-challenge.org), where it will be evaluated over the Internet.
This research will be carried out in the context of the newly established junior research group "Efficient algorithms in computational linguistics", which is part of the Cluster of Excellence "Multimodal Computing and Interaction" at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany. Saarland University is one of the major centers for computational linguistics worldwide, and with the recent creation of the cluster of excellence (20 new independent junior research groups in various fields of computer science and computational linguistics) is set to become an even more dynamic research environment. Researchers come from all over the world, and the research language is English.
The post-doc should have (or be about to finish) a PhD in computational linguistics, computer science, linguistics, or a related field. He or she should be an expert in (and ideally, have published on) one or more of the following areas: natural language generation; planning or plan recognition; situated communication; discourse. The PhD student should have an interest in one or more of these areas and an excellent university degree in a relevant subject. Both researchers will have the opportunity to participate in teaching and the supervision of student research assistants, as well as the organization of the GIVE Challenge. Applicants are expected to be comfortable with interdisciplinary collaborations.
Please send your application (CV, list of publications, and 2-3 letters of reference) as a PDF file to Alexander Koller at
by September 15, 2008. The positions will remain open until filled, so later applications may still be considered. Saarland University wishes to increase the proportion of women in research and strongly encourages qualified female candidates to apply. Priority will be given to handicapped candidates with equivalent qualifications.
We also encourage you to inquire about further details from:
Dr. Alexander Koller Exzellenzcluster / FR 4.7 Computerlinguistik Saarland University Postfach 151150, 66041 Saarbrücken Germany
